Hyderabad, B`lore airports out of 150-km norm

New Delhi: The new greenfield airports policy, which has allowed new airports to come up within 150 kilometres of exisiting airports, will not apply to privately-run Hyderabad and Bangalore airports as well as the proposed facility in Greater Noida.
While the concession agreements for Hyderabad and Bangalore had been signed much before the policy was formulated, proposal for the Greater Noida airport has been passed to an Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) by the Union Cabinet.
The policy, which received Cabinet approval yesterday, has empowered the civil aviation ministry and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to give single-window clearance for airport projects in the country.
"There is a clause in contracts for both Hyderabad and Bangalore airports which says that no new airport can come up within 150 km of the greenfield airports for 25 years after they start operations. In future, if the private developer objects to the coming up of a second airport in either Bangalore or Hyderabad, the issue will be out of the reach of the greenfield airport policy since the contract was signed much earlier," said an industry expert.
26/04/08 Anirban Chowdhury/Business Standard

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Categories: Airports Apr 2008